Iraq - Secret Tapes Show Saddam's WMD Deception

What's the "Bush lied, people died" crowd going to say about these tapes then?

Here's the byline: "In Recording, Iraqi Dictator Is Briefed on Efforts to Hide Weapons Programs".

And these programs were chemical, biological and nulcear.

Not the type of the weapons, not the volume of the materials we imported, not the volume of the production we told them about, not the volume of use. None of this was correct. They don't know any of this. We did not say we used them on Iran. We did not reveal the volume of the chemical weapons that we had produced. We did not reveal the type of the chemical weapons. We did not reveal the truth about the volume of the imported materials. Therefore sir, if they want to create problems, I see that our argument now is that biological is everything. No, sir, I disagree and I have to be candid in front of your Excellency. I substantially disagree on this issue. They want it item by item. For the time being, they are not raising all of them with us and we did not declare. I will come back, sir, to the question of whether is it better for us to declare or to stay? In the nuclear, sir, in the biological, we also disagree with them. Not the 17 tons, no. We have a disagreement which is essential and known. We know it ourselves.

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As for the nuclear, we say we have disclosed everything but no. We have undeclared problems in nuclear as well, and I believe that they know. There are teams working with no one knowing about some of them.

And there is tons more information yet to be translated.

Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, says the tapes are authentic and show that "Saddam had a fixation on weapons of mass destruction and he had a fixation on hiding what he was doing from the U.N. inspectors." Hoeckstra says there are more than 35,000 boxes of such tapes and documents that the U.S. government has not analyzed nor made public that should also be translated and studied on an urgent basis.

Also, note this:

Charles Duelfer, who led the official U.S. search for weapons of mass destruction after the war, says the tapes show extensive deception but don't prove that weapons were still hidden in Iraq at the time of the U.S.-led war in 2003. "What they do is support the conclusion in the report, which we made in the last couple of years, that the regime had the intention of building and rebuilding weapons of mass destruction, when circumstances permitted."

The "in Iraq" is the important part. We now know, thanks to Saddam's top air force general, that they were moved to Syria shortly before the war.

And Saddam had ties to al Qaeda and other terrorists as well.

That's according to this ABC news recording from 1999. As you listen, remember, the White House and Government officials mentioned were the Clinton White House and Democrats.

Quite and eye opener, huh? Now that Bush is in the White House, MSM and the Democrats have done a 180 degrees and they deny Saddam and bin Laden worked together or that Saddam harbored terrorists. But as you just heard from ABC News, they sang a different tune when Clinton was in charge. Funny that.

Now you know why Clinton and all the other Democrats were claiming Iraq had WMD's when they were in office. But since Bush and the Republicans are now in office, they and their mouth piece, the lying left wing media, are telling a different story. See here and here for extensive quotes from Democrats on Saddam's WMD's. In fact, here's a great round up of Iraq's WMDs.

UPDATE

Here's a report on a second Iraqi officer who also claims Iraq's WMDs were moved to Syria and that Iraq had ties to al Qaeda.
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